21SepDoes Your Logo Suck?

We see a lot of logos out there that are ugly, unreadable, or worse, just plain boring. In short, they suck. It’s inspired us to do something radical, something we’ve never seen done before: we’re going to fix it for free. Is your company doing great work? Is your logo just not living up to your true image? You know who you are. This is your chance to take your brand by the horns and do something about it. Take a picture, find a copy of your logo file, make a short video…tell us your story. Go to our mini website DoesYourLogoSuck.com, fill out the form, and send it all in by October 21st. Our winner will be announced on October 26th. Inspire us—tell us how you’re improving people’s lives—and you could win a free logo. Come on, man up and put your name in the hat. Let’s make the world a better place. In style.

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10 Responses to “Does Your Logo Suck?”

I support your cause. It is up to us designers and artists to save the world from this outrageous ugliness. I will dream of new fonts, new shapes, new figure-ground relationships, new symmetry, and new possibilities! On behalf of us all, thank you, thank you Romanelli Designs. The world will be much sweeter due to your random acts of design-kindness. 😉

My gut feeling says “No!” Free is just another way of saying we’ll pay for it eventually, just not right now.

I looked at the promo site and while there are some “rules” there isn’t any mention of the finer print. For example, in the event that we are chosen, the rules state that we will agree (i.e. contractually) to let them redesign our logo. But what outs do we have if their “creative discretion” is not suitable to our tastes?

Likewise, their specific mention of keeping creative control implies that all copyrights to imagery and artwork, including derivative works, will remain in their possession.

What do you have to say to that! (…other than: “Wha…? Huh? Well, just go away then. Free stuff just isn’t for you!”)

We’ll work with you to redesign a logo that IS suited to your taste and also represents your business – and while it’s our expectation that you would use the new logo moving forward. You’ll love it – we promise.

If you have specific questions about derivative works, usage and the like – please drop us an email with specifics and we’ll gladly answer them (and post questions and answers in the comments in case others are interested).